Over the least few weeks my dog Frankie MooMoo Thumbelina the Schnauzer puppy has been coming to work with me and i’m convinced it’s making me work more efficiently as I now have to work to a very specific routine to keep her happy through the day. What this means is that you work in [...]
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87 days after the experiment started, it has ended. Quite suddenly. I was speaking to a friend yesterday (hello Simon) and I was getting complaints that he couldn’t hear me and that I sounded like I was mumbling. I came to the sad conclusion that my old Nokia had seen its best days and was [...]
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I am now 66 days into this experiment and still going strong. My old Nokia is working well i’m getting very few complaints about people not being able to hear me. And guess what, it doesn’t randomly reset itself, run out of battery or burn my ear like the iPhone did. I have used the [...]
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Okay a full month has passed and I am still off my iPhone 4. What have I learnt so far? 1. I get more work done 2. I am far more able to work in a linear fashion and do the job I have in front of me before being distracted by the next job [...]
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The first week is done and for me, it’s been a genuine success. I seem to have been far more efficient with my emails. At the end of Friday I went home with 29 in the inbox, compared to 74 the week before. I am not ‘grazing’ information I don’t need and without doubt moving [...]
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I’m starting to quite like this. I am definitely spending less time with emails and more time actually doing work. For me this is a huge progression. But firstly a few confessions. 1. The phone I bought was crap – I had a few people complaining that they couldn’t hear me. It may be that [...]
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Okay, not very scientific but the first business day is done and it’s been a bit of a success. Only ten email messages in my inbox and lots of the things on my written list already completed. I did get a lot of Twitter activity today and a friend Ben Afia recommended I look up [...]
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Okay. the first day of my new era. Life without an iPhone 4 and it all seems pretty smooth so far. Sadly I haven’t got my phone number sorted yet so can’t receive texts, but have managed to redirect all phone calls from the old number to the new. A clever feature of iPhones. Hmm. [...]
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Probably not the best start to the day when I discovered that I have managed to lose the micro sim converter that I bought earlier in the week in preparation for the switchover tomorrow AM. This is the little device that you need to make the iPhone 4 sim (which is essentially a cut down [...]
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We all have too much stuff in our life. Too many possessions, too many media choices and too many ways of accessing any piece of available information from anywhere in the world. And I’ve had enough, so i’m making a change to the way I run my life and the first stand will be against [...]
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